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ebecca Makkai’s latest novel, is a literary mystery set against the backdrop of a New Hampshire boarding school. Our protagonist, Bodie Kane, is a successful podcaster who is invited back to her alma mater to help some current students create podcasts of their own. One student, however, is determined to make a podcast about the 1995 murder of Thalia Keith, a case that has had a second life on the internet and which numerous online sleuths are

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